Diamonds in the Rough!

[waynorth]

Shapleigh commissioned beautiful knives over the years! They are hard to resist! These span 15-20 years of collecting;

 

[esnyx]

All incredible knives, Charlie! But I must say, that coke bottle with the butt plate just gave me an adrenaline rush! WOW!!!

 

[Old & In The Way]

Wow, what a collection! 15 to 20 very successful years of collecting I'd say. :thumbup:

 

[singin50]

The one that does it for me is the pen knife with the celluloid stripes,,,,Wowee!

 

[waynorth]

Thanks for the positive comments my friends, and thanks Poppa Philllll for opening a DE thread! Could be my favorite shield! The knives are nice also!!

 

[philllll]

Thanks everyone for showing your amazing knives. You've got a good group there, Charlie! I like that little stag congress.

 

[Primble]

Fantastic knives everyone. :thumbup::thumbup:

Really like that Pillbuster Charlie !

 

[supratentorial]

 

[kamagong]

Here's an Imperial with crimped bolsters and some sort of synthetic covers.



I don't know anything about old knives. Were these made for the same company? A cheaper line perhaps? I noticed the shield is a little different.

 

[philllll]

Nice one, Kamagong! I think yours was made by Imperial, after they acquired the Diamond Edge trademark.

Love the bone on that stockman, supra!

 

[J W Bensinger]

I have a brown bone DE clip point barlow that my Dad nabbed somewhere as a kid-also he has a Shapleigh hardware 3" (ish) trailing point fixed blade that may have some DE connection. Next time I'm at the folks I'll grab some pics. Both would date to 1935 or so.

 

[Gevonovich]

Phill
Some real zingers you have, sir!

Charlie
The years have been good to you kind sir!!!! I honestly can't pick a fav...I love em alllllllll

 

[kamagong]

Thanks for the info philllll.

Nice one, Kamagong!

Lol...

It's a poor knife in truth. Certainly nothing like the others shown in this thread. It's a good thing you guys share your pics in this forum, as this was my first oldie. If not for y'all I would still be under the impression that old knives were rubbish.

 

[knarfeng]

Sigh. What's a grumpy old man mod to do?

 

[kamagong]

Sorry Frank. I didn't think there was anything wrong with my choice of words. Edit forthcoming.

 

[philllll]

A couple new additions to my DE collection!

 

[Jack Black]

Looking good Phil :thumbup:

 

[philllll]

A couple others I've had for awhile but have been neglecting adding to this thread

 

[2Dead]

Beautiful knives!! I only have new versions Charlie helped bring us.

 

[singin50]

Beautiful older DEs guys! I knw why so many of us like these,,,it's because most were made by Schrade Cut Co.